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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: electric bicycles."
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description: "Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and requires electric bicycles to comply with specified equipment and manufacturing requirements. Existing law prohibits a person from tampering with or modifying an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability of the bicycle, unless they appropriately replace the label indicating the classification required, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 1774"
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citation: "California AB 1774 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles", "electric bicycles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2024-01-03"
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last_action: "2024-07-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d48197c-51d9-43f9-86d1-4c8b2c9393d9"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1774"
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source_hash: "4b6a6a6e6bb7eb796f673cc4f4b29b93b77679bbfddfd4ae2adecf2caa38e74f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1774 (20232024) — Vehicles: electric bicycles.
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Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and requires electric bicycles to comply with specified equipment and manufacturing requirements. Existing law prohibits a person from tampering with or modifying an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability of the bicycle, unless they appropriately replace the label indicating the classification required, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/03/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1774&version=20230AB177499INT)
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2. **07/02/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1774&version=20230AB177497CHP)
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3. **AB1774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1774)
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4. **06/18/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1774&version=20230AB177498ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 1774 Dixon Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1774 Dixon et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dixon — primary (person)
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- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2024-01-04** From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
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- **2024-01-16** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-09** Coauthors revised.
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- **2024-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5087.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2024-05-15** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2024-06-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-06-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4490.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-06-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2024-07-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2024-07-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 55, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d48197c-51d9-43f9-86d1-4c8b2c9393d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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